From: Marcin Wojnarski <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:14:23 +0200 Dear Anthony, We pay attention not to include any improper journals in Paperity and to our best knowledge there are none at the moment, but if you - or any other reader - find one, please let us know and we will investigate the issue. Many eyeballs is the best way to spot bad content. Marcin Marcin Wojnarski, Founder of Paperity, www.paperity.org www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski www.facebook.com/Paperity www.twitter.com/Paperity On 10/12/2014 08:10 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote: > > From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:09:24 +0100 > > DOAJ and (I assume) PMC now go in for quality control. Does this new > service filter for articles published in the sort of OA journals that > are not recognised as properly peer reviewed by DOAJ? > > Anthony > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcin Wojnarski <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:07:42 +0200 > > (press release, apologies for cross-posting) > > With the beginning of the new academic year, Paperity, the first > multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, has > been launched. Paperity will connect authors with readers, boost > dissemination of new discoveries and consolidate academia around open > literature. > > Right now, Paperity (http://paperity.org/) includes over 160,000 open > articles, "gold" and "hybrid", from 2,000 scholarly journals, and > growing. The goal of the team is to cover - with the support of > journal editors and publishers - 100% of Open Access literature in 3 > years from now. In order to achieve this, Paperity utilizes an > original technology for article indexing, designed by Marcin > Wojnarski, a data geek from Poland and a medalist of the International > Mathematical Olympiad. This technology indexes only true peer-reviewed > scholarly papers and filters out irrelevant entries, which easily make > it into other aggregators and search engines. > > The amount of scholarly literature has grown enormously in the last > decades. Successful dissemination became a big issue. New tools are > needed to help readers access vast amounts of literature dispersed all > over the web and to help authors reach their target audience. > Moreover, research is interdisciplinary now and scholars need broad > access to literature from many fields, also from outside of their core > research area. This is the reason why Paperity covers all subjects, > from Sciences, Technology, Medicine, through Social Sciences, to > Humanities and Arts. > > - There are lots of great articles out there which report new > significant findings, yet attract no attention, only because they are > hard to find. No more than top 10% of research institutions have good > access to communication channels and can share their findings > efficiently. The remaining 90%, especially authors from developing > countries and early-career researchers, start from a much lower stand > and often stay unnoticed despite high quality of their work – says > Wojnarski. He adds that it is not by accident that Paperity partners > right now with the EU Contest for Young Scientists, the biggest > science fair in Europe. With the help of Paperity, the Contest wants > to improve dissemination of discoveries authored by its participants – > top young talents from all over the continent. > > Paperity is the first service of this kind. The most similar existing > website, PubMed Central, aggregates open journals, too, but is limited > to life sciences alone. Another related service, the Directory of Open > Access Journals, does index articles from multiple periodicals and > different disciplines, but does not provide aggregation, only pure > indexing: it shows metadata of articles, but for fulltext access > redirects to external sites. Moreover, both PMC and DOAJ impose strict > technical requirements on participating journals, which limits the > scope of aggregation. Paperity adapts to whatever technology a given > periodical employs. > > Paperity website: http://paperity.org/